NEW DELHI: The flood situation in Assam turned critical today with seven more people losing their lives, while in Bihar, the toll from lighting strikes mounted to 32.
A whopping 12.55 lakh people across 20 districts in Assam have been hit hard by the calamity, a recurring phenomenon every year.
With the fresh deaths, the total number of people losing their lives in this year’s flood-related cases has gone up to 33, including seven in the state’s largest city Guwahati.
In the neighbouring north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, incessant rains for the past three days triggered landslides and flash floods, claiming the life of a 3-year-old girl who was tragically washed away yesterday.
Major rivers in the State are flowing above the danger level while surface communication was disrupted at many places along the NH-415 that links Assam with Arunachal Pradesh, officials said.
The Met department predicted more rainfall over the next few days.
Bihar’s Disaster Management Department Principal Secretary Pratyay Amrit said that the 32 deaths in lightning strikes include four in the State capital Patna.
The toll reported yesterday was 16.
The hardest-hit districts of Rohtas and Vaishali have reported five deaths each, he said. The state has been receiving intermittent rain over the past few days.
Amrit said the State Government would soon launch a lightning-tracker app that would alert people about thunder and lightning. (AGENCIES)
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